Love is a Battlefield “Pat Benatar” Love is all around us even if you don’t know it. You can say that you love someone or something but what does that mean? What is love? How do we use it and is it the correct meaning of the word love? I have a mother and father and a sister and a twin brother and I love my family. I have a girlfriend that I love but what is love? But the way in which I love my girlfriend is seemingly very different from the way I love my mother, my child, and my friend. My opinion is that is something that you feel inside it’s something that your heart tells your mind and it’s something that just fits.
The Greeks have broken down love into three different categories Eros,agape, and Philia. Eros means love in the sense of a kind of passionate desire for an object most of the time a sexual passion. Eros is also described as the love of desire or acquisitive love and therefore as egocentric. Eros is also described as selfish and as a response to the merits of the beloved especially the beloved's goodness or beauty. Agape is described primarily through the Christian tradition to mean the sort of love God has for us people as well as our love for God and by extension of our love for each other a kind of brotherly love. Philia originally meant a kind of affectionate toward a friendly feeling towards a friend but also possibly towards family members, business partners. Philosophers distinguish love from other positive attitudes we take towards persons such as liking. Some love differs from such attitudes as liking in terms of its depth and the problem is to make clear the kind of depth we find love to have. Solomon a famous philosopher he offers a view about how to make new sense out of love through rather than metaphoric sense of the bringing together of two souls but it is unclear exactly what he means by a soul here and so how love can be a literal fusion of two souls. Is love the driving force of life? Do we need love to survive?
Philosophy of love
Love is a Battlefield “Pat Benatar”Love is all around us even if you don’t know it. You can say that you love someone or something but what does that mean? What is love? How do we use it and is it the correct meaning of the word love? I have a mother and father and a sister and a twin brother and I love my family. I have a girlfriend that I love but what is love? But the way in which I love my girlfriend is seemingly very different from the way I love my mother, my child, and my friend. My opinion is that is something that you feel inside it’s something that your heart tells your mind and it’s something that just fits.
The Greeks have broken down love into three different categories Eros, agape, and Philia. Eros means love in the sense of a kind of passionate desire for an object most of the time a sexual passion. Eros is also described as the love of desire or acquisitive love and therefore as egocentric. Eros is also described as selfish and as a response to the merits of the beloved especially the beloved's goodness or beauty. Agape is described primarily through the Christian tradition to mean the sort of love God has for us people as well as our love for God and by extension of our love for each other a kind of brotherly love. Philia originally meant a kind of affectionate toward a friendly feeling towards a friend but also possibly towards family members, business partners.
Philosophers distinguish love from other positive attitudes we take towards persons such as liking. Some love differs from such attitudes as liking in terms of its depth and the problem is to make clear the kind of depth we find love to have. Solomon a famous philosopher he offers a view about how to make new sense out of love through rather than metaphoric sense of the bringing together of two souls but it is unclear exactly what he means by a soul here and so how love can be a literal fusion of two souls.
Is love the driving force of life? Do we need love to survive?